Hi, DuckDuckGo is an alternative to Google and Bing that, while not really open source, uses open source components, donates 10% of their profits to open source projects, and is of course built on free software: http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216390-open-source So how does that make them different from say Google? Well, they are extremely committed to user privacy and don't track users or otherwise collect or retain personal information about them: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html I recently came across an article that mentioned LinuxMint now ships with DuckDuckGo configured: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1884 I don't know if shipping with DuckDuckGo configured in our browsers by default is a good idea or not, but it would be nice if we could ship with it as an option. At least for Firefox, there's already a search engine plugin written for it. Certainly their stances on user privacy seem more in-line with our own. We've also fielded some criticism I think for using Google as the start.fedoraproject.org search engine. DuckDuckGo might be a friendlier alternative for start.fpo. Does this make sense? Would it be appropriate to file a ticket with FESCO on including them by default and with the websites team to consider using DDG for start.fpo? Or is it not enough benefit? I was interested in hearing folks weigh in here. Thanks, ~m _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
